Good point. Just to be clear - my suggestions all assume this is a testing/playground/get a feel setup. This is a bad idea for performance testing (not to mention anywhere near production).
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Tim Wintle <timwin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I might be missing something, but if it is all on one machine then why use > Cassandra or hadoop? > > Sent from my phone > > On 13 Jul 2013 01:16, "Martin Arrowsmith" <arrowsmith.mar...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Dear Cassandra experts, >> >> I have an HP Proliant ML350 G8 server, and I want to put virtual >> servers on it. I would like to put the maximum number of nodes >> for a Cassandra + Hadoop cluster. I was wondering - what is the >> minimum RAM and memory per node I that I need to have Cassandra + Hadoop >> before the performance decreases are not worth the extra nodes? >> >> Also, what is the suggested typical number of CPU cores / Node ? Would >> it make sense to have 1 core / node ? Less than that ? >> >> Any insight is appreciated! Thanks very much for your time! >> >> Martin
